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Jan 26, 2009
Raving Lunatic - indy

 

So I work in the dental field and I am so frustrated right now with insurance companies!!!! A patient came in the other day with a broken denture. I sent it to the lab to get fixed and the lab bill was $80. The insurance company pays me $75 and tells me I can't bill the patient for the difference. WTF????!!!!!!! So what they are telling me is that I just paid $5 to have this patient's denture fixed!!! So from now on I will refuse to fix dentures and send these patients away just because their insurance company hasn't raised their reimbursement rates since 1955!!!!!!!! Insurance companies are the biggest CROOKS out there!!! What makes me even angrier is that I told the patient before hand that he will have to pay the difference of what his insurance didn't pay and he even signed a paper stating that fact. But after he spoke with his insurance company he now says he doesn't have to pay. I told him I just paid out of my own pocket to fix his denture and he didn't care.

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Darkness Descends

Oct 12, 2009
Ann Goodall - Indianapolis

 

Why is there no legislation regarding how high home owners can allow their trees to grow? Winter is nearly here, and the little sun people could be getting is obscured by massive weed trees...aka Maples. I live in fear of neighbors trees coming crashing through my home during storms. C'mon...cut them short enough to allow people light into their lives! Surely insurance companies should enforce this...no trees within striking distance of a home. Makes sense! If neighbors have no insurance, what happens if one of their trees demolishes my home? Who pays?

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